
I sit in front of the Mirror,
staring at those empty eyes that once used to say so much
In front of me I see,
all that I’ve feared I would become, all that I’ve tried to hide for long
All that I really am.
I bit my lips with rage so they wouldn’t repeat this selfish prayer,
its just a broken heart, I can fix it somehow,
no need for angels sent from above…
Don’t go leaving miracles in my door.
There has to be an antidote for this, but I’ve never been here before:
I’ve scratched the surface, dug deep inside me,
laid awake after every battle lost,
tried to make new strategies, analyzing, tripping and always realizing
I must be doing something wrong cuz all I get is.. Worse.
Your absence is so intoxicating, why should I hide, its late and am breaking
haunting memories, laughing every time I fall
This isn’t what I asked for after all
I hate to see myself like this
Taking slow breaths but I cant make it stop
One step at a time, but life just spins out of control
Am tired of pretending am feeling better today
Better than what? this isn’t the flu, I cant just make it go away
I wanna take it off my chest, and make it stop already
This cross I have to carry is getting too damn heavy
What have I become?
I see just closed doors
hand full of questions
I know I wasn’t perfect, but I’ve already learned my lesson.
I stare with fear and through this window, a girl warns me with hate
I’ve tried to heal her so many times before,
but maybe its not our fate
It doesn’t hurt to be alone, It doesn’t hurt to not go back
It doesn’t hurt to know its over, what really kills me is knowing
That It was never there.
What else can I expect…
This Pain has become a part of me,
I live with it, I walk with it, I dance with it
I wear it like an accessory in too many different ways
Take it out for walks in the park only in rainy days
I Tell it stories before going to sleep
And hide it in the closet when is dark, so it wont lead me in my dreams to you.
Never back to you.
I sit in front of the Mirror and watch my image erase
Mixing with dust and old hours, mixing with smiles and with faith.
But in the end this is all I am,
A reflection
Of what I should’ve never become
Of what I should’ve never become
An empty bottle of our love.
2
The dust of time has covered
My most beloved memories
I watch them as they fade away
Sometimes
I try
To hold on to them as if they were
My dearest treasure
so many shades of gray…
Forgiveness and wisdom that fulfill me
Mixing with smiles and with faith
in this never-ending texture
That we call life…
I have learned to breath this air
One step at a time
So that its beauty does not intoxicate me
So that this vision of love doesn’t invade me
So that this wounds so deep inside, don’t break me
So that this song.. with all its changes
Lasts long enough
To become one
With my warrior soul.
The dust of time
Has covered my skin
With white Decembers
So quiet and peaceful
As the strings of a sleeping guitar..
So lonesome.
I look up,
Someone painted this tonight
With blurry stars..
And below me
Dancing shadows
confuse me, misguide me..
Laugh as I fall, but am strong,
I can go on..
in the end
Just silence…
The dust of time
Covers my body
With dead leaves
and prayers
Tears that fall from the sky
So cold
Possess me
Dreams that awake inside me
As I rest the needle
For a minute
And analyze the thread around me
So complex…
He who invented life
Must be a poet.
And time,
Its most wonderful verse.
3
I’ve heard your aching silence in a place that’s not yours to own
I’ve seen you trip, fall on your knees and cry
I’ve felt the tears slide down your face, and vanish in your lips like liquor
I’ve smelled the fear in your soul,
you haven’t learned your lesson yet.
And sometimes it just seems like such a shame,
To want something you can never have.
doesn’t it?
But that’s just sometimes.
Did I ever say I was your friend?
I’ve laughed at you and stepped on you,
I’ve danced around your broken body
to the rhythm of that unanswered prayer you call love
And then you pretend to erase me,
but don’t I always find a way to haunt you
Tomorrow more than yesterday?
don’t I always find a way to cuddle in your beloved memories
And make them real again?…
What did you do this time?
You made up your own little fantasy, don’t come blaming me for it
There can be no happy ending for you, this is reality
Am not coming home tonight.
I am the demons inside your head, not your savior..
I am the thirst
of this undiscovered someone that you still think exists..
Keep dreaming sweetheart.
Your stubbornness has become your worse enemy
Sometimes its just better to walk away from it all
You are blind because you choose to be
I keep feeding you lies, you come asking for more
Addicted, so conflicted, contradicted by your conscience
And you still wont listen.
If I didn’t know better, I would say you are just like me.
4
Haven’t we met before?
In a rainy day
just like today
And I look at you from far away
You walk towards me, its like a vision
My heart beating so loud, my whole world gone
And I think to myself, this is the answer
This is the sign I have asked for
This is my turn to be alive..
Blinded from the start, I pray you never let go..
My hero.
Voices inside me begging me to stay aware
But I’ve already lost control.
Breathing your air I begin to
dream you
Want you
Feel you
Need you
Adore you
And then I hate you all over again.
Am tied to these strings, am stuck with this lines
I say am in love for the first time, yet the words sound so old
So different.. So opposite…So not perfect for me
somehow I cant erase you from my skin.
Am scarred before you hurt me
Am in pain before you attack
Déjà vu
Isn’t it funny how we always
come back to tonight?
And then you become my stranger..
All over again.
5

The puppet
Awoke one morning
Pretty much decided to get everything back.
He opened his eyes and saw a new day
This oxygen felt different, he said
And he put on his best outfit
Shined his shoes
Fixed his tie
Grabbed something quick to eat and got ready
To tell his puppeteer good bye.
Why hadn’t he thought of this before?
In the road,
He found a smile
Not the happiest one, but a smile after all
he pasted it to his wooden face,
Walked a little more straight
And felt like a new man.
Of course, the puppet’s name
couldn’t be Puppet anymore
So he tried finding something sophisticated
Original yet easy to remember
And called it his name from now on.
You see, sometimes,
When you decide to be everything you should be
Lies of good memories fulfill your mind,
To scare you and bother you
until you postpone your plans..
But not this time.
He dreamt of new lands to be discovered
Of one warm heart to call his own, somewhere out there..
He dreamt of happy new tomorrows,
And slowly got himself into his dream-come-true life.
Oh what a mess.
The puppet, who wasn’t a puppet anymore
But a sophisticated not-anymore-a-puppet person
Awoke each and everyday, got out to work
Kissed his wife and got his kids to school
He even had a real pet,
And a car
and a house,
and paid vacations at the beach.
He wrote a book,
Planted a tree
Joined an Anonymous Puppets Rehab Group,
and drank with his friends on Friday nights.
But then one day
As he got ready to go fishing with his son
He heard a very familiar sound, chills through his body
This cant be!
But the clapping just got louder all around.
You see, sometimes, dreams can get to our head
Numb our bodies, blur our vision
And make us see things that weren’t really there.
He looked around and only found hand-made houses and dolls
He tried to run but his wooden legs gave up too fast
He tripped, he fell,
And a sharp, puppeteer-kind of laughter made him realize
Oh, who‘s immature enough, to think he can fool life?
In vain he tried to remember his sophisticated, American not-so-puppet name
But this oxygen was intoxicating
This tie he wore was almost chocking him
And the glue for his smile..
well, he didn’t smile no more.
Now on his knees
His hope all gone
He let himself go
hit his wooden head against the floor
And then looked up, for one last time..
Oh what had he done?
Why did he think that he was different?
What made him think he could escape?
The strings were always there sweetheart..
He was still a puppet
Just a puppet
After all.